Brown v. Brown
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal from Circuit Court, Monongalia County. Bill by John M. G. Brown against Bobert L. Brown and others. Decree for defendants. Plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
BbaNNON, Judge:
John J. Brown died in August, 1905, having made a will by which he devised real estate, in the city of. Morgantown to his wife, Mary Ellen .Brown, during her life, with remainder to his children, John M. G. Brown, Bobert L. Brown, Margaret A. Stoetzer, and three infant grandchildren, children of a dead son, Zalmon Kent Brown. The widow conveyed her life estate to one of said devisees, John M. G. Brown, and he brought a suit in the circuit court of Monongalia county to compel a partition of the land among those entitled. The court dismissed the bill and John M. G. Brown appeals.
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